Sullivan v. Bland

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

When sued -by appellees in ejectment to recover a tract of 32 acres of land in Hardin county and $500.00 damages for the wrongful withholding’ thereof, rents, etc., appellant, Sullivan, answered and denied the claim of appellees to the land, and affimatively pleaded that on June 1, 1892, he and his then wife, -Margaret Sullivan, who was the owner in fee simple of the tract of land described in the petition, entered into an agreement whereby the husband was to make certain improvements on her land and that the survivor should have both the land and…